Sell Books Fast - 7 Twenty-Minute Book Promotional Tips

I'm trying to be a good book promoter and take my own advice by writing more articles... So I thought I would share this one with you. Hopefully you can use some of the ideas! Feel free to post it on your blog, ezine, for forums, whatever. Right now I am just collecting a ideas of people who would want to review my first ebook on creative sales techniques to SELL MORE BOOKS!

Blessings!

Lisa

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Sell Books Fast - 7 Twenty-Minute Book Promotional Tips by Lisa Copen

Book promotion can often get stuck at the end of our "to do" list because it seems to take up so much time, but book marketing services aren't always necessary. There are dozens of ways to complete some of your book marketing tasks in less than twenty minutes. Whether you have chosen to self publish or have been published with a traditional publisher, add these book marketing ideas up and they can make a significant difference in selling your book.

[1] Did you know your autograph is desired? Go to the Autographed by Author web site at www.autographedbyauthor.com! You just sign up for $29.95 ($19.95 for each additional book) and then this web site will send their visitors to your own web site to buy an autographed book directly from you. Autographed by Author has a great page rank in search engines so it will likely bring you additional customers. Many people don't understand how to sell books on the internet in unique ways. This is a great way to start.

[2] Update your Amazon.com information, especially the tags for your book so you aren't Amazon's thousands of authors asking, "How and where can I sell my books?" Go to your book's Amazon page and scroll down to "Tags customers associate with this product." Then add any tags you can think of that people would be putting into the search engines to find solutions to their problems. Remember, people usually search by their problems, not by the answers you provide. For example, instead of searching for "marriage" "relationship expert" they may be searching for "how to avoid divorce" or "spouse cheats." Soon you'll be an expert at how to sell books on Amazon.

[3] No more pen stealing! Leave your own pens behind instead. Always carry a bunch of pens that have your book's information and web site in your purse, briefcase and car. Whenever you pay with a credit card and have to sign receipts, pull out one of our own pens and then casually leave it behind. Book marketing need some non-typical creativity. Join a book marketing network so you can exchange other unique book marketing ideas.

[4] Go to www.google.com/alerts and sign up for Google Alerts on any topics you should be "in the know" about. Particularly, be sure to note any blogs where articles on your topic are posted. Drop by them and make a comment and introduce yourself. If you write articles on this topic (which you should be), let the host of the blog know where they can find the articles and that they are welcome to reprint them. This is a good way to sell books online.

[5] Do you have a brilliant quote in your book that you hope people will be highlighting? Every book should have a few nuggets! Send your quotes to quotation databases. Just Google the words "submit quote" or "submit quotation" to find some web sites or you can also submit them at About.com's web site at http://quotations.about.com/library/bl/blform-Quote-Suggest.htm .

[6] So you know what books are being talked about on National Public Radio and various syndicated book related radio shows? Go to http://www.npr.org/programs/ and listen to NPR shows. And you can see a daily listing of books that have been featured on NPR at http://www.npr.org/books/index.html. See http://news.bookweb.org/mediaguide/673.html to see what authors have future events scheduled on NPR. And don't forget to scrutinize what NPR says about how to pitch to their show here: http://www.npr.org/about/pitch .

[7] Give your readers a call! It's easy and less expensive then sending a postcard to blast out a voice broadcast to people for just $.12 per call. One company, VoiceShot Outbound http://www.voiceshot.com offers 200 complimentary delivered calls. This is a unique and fun personal way to relate with people on your mailing list. When was the last time you received a phone call from your favorite author? I haven't yet, but it would sure get my attention!

Whenever book marketing brainstorm comes to you that you don't have time to follow through on immediately bookmark the web site or write it down. When you have chunks of free time start working through your list and soon your promotional efforts will efforts will sell your books! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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